Educational Science

World Wide Web: Definition, history and facts

Before the invention of the World Wide Web (WWW), the earliest internet users were mainly researchers and military personnel. The network was complicated and, although it was possible to share files and messages, the interface was not user-friendly. In 1993, a researcher at CERN called Tim Berners-Lee started building a...

Antikythera Mechanism photos: See the world's first computer

Sponge divers pulled the first fragments of what became known as the Antikythera Mechanism from a Roman-era shipwreck in 1901 off the coast of the Greek island Antikythera. Ever since the discovery, scientists and historians have continued to look for more artifacts from the shipwreck while also piecing together the...

The weapons systems being developed by the U.S. Department of Defense are vulnerable to cyberattacks, meaning some evildoer with hacking skills could potentially take control of such weapons without being noticed, according to a new report by the U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO), released Oct. 9. And the DOD seemed...

DARPA takes step toward 'holy grail of encryption'

The U.S. defense department is searching for what could be considered the holy grail of data encryption, which would seal up a loophole that allows hackers to access sensitive information while it's being processed. In modern encryption, a well-defined set of calculations, known as an algorithm, scrambles data so that...

What Was the World's 1st Cyberattack?

Back in November 1988, Robert Tappan Morris, son of the famous cryptographer Robert Morris Sr., was a 20-something graduate student at Cornell who wanted to know how big the internet was – that is, how many devices were connected to it. So he wrote a program that would travel from...

Supercomputers Solve a Mystery Hidden Inside Merging Water Droplets

A team of British physicists and mathematicians used a supercomputer to uncover the hidden truth of how water droplets merge and stick together. If you've ever watched water droplets touch and merge, you might have imagined two little balls of water getting closer and closer together, until their surfaces overlapped...

Firewall: Definition, technology and facts

A firewall is a online security measure to protect your computer from viruses and other malicious attacks. You can use the internet to communicate with around 4.9 billion people worldwide, according to the International Telecommunication Union, and access more knowledge than at any other time in history. The downside is...

Early Memorial Day deal: Save $240 on the HP Envy 13 - an ideal laptop for students

If you’re looking for one of the best laptops around right now, then HP just made your next purchase much easier by reducing the price of one of its excellent HP Envy laptops by over $200. Right now, you can get the HP Envy 13 for just $699.99 at the...

Student laptop deal: Save $200 on MacBook Pro 13-inch and 14-inch at Best Buy

Although it's technically Amazon Prime Day, they're not the only place with some attractive offers. Save big bucks over at Best Buy thanks to their amazing deal on this gorgeous pair of MacBook Pro laptops. These are premium laptops at a very pretty price. Grab the MacBook Pro 13.3 with...